The New York Yankees pitching staff’s historically dominant start continued in through their home opener.
Thanks to another solid outing from Will Warren in their 8-2 win over the Miami Marlins, the Yankees have tied the franchise record for starts of two-or-fewer runs and knotted the MLB record for fewest runs against in their first seven games.
The Yankees have given up just eight runs in their first seven games. That tied them with the 2002 San Francisco Giants and 1993 Atlanta Braves for fewest in the first seven games of a big-league season, according to Sarah Langs of MLB.com.
Both the 2002 Giants and 1993 Braves made the playoffs, and the ’02 Giants were just six outs from winning the World Series before blowing Game 6 and losing Game 7 to the then-Anaheim Angels.
The Yankees are 6-1 for the second time in three seasons yet matched their second-best season-opening seven-game stretch. The 1933 Yankees, who started 7-0, are the only team in franchise history to have a better first seven games.
The Yankees Pitching Staff is Off to a Historically Great Start
Yankees pitchers have allowed only the eight runs in seven games, but their four starters have been even more impressive. Through seven games, and 39 2/3 innings, Yankees starters have pitched to a 0.91 ERA this year by surrendering just four earned runs.
Warren’s ERA is 2.61 through two starts, which ranks fourth among the Yankees’ four pitchers who have started a game this season.
Even if you toss out Ryan Weathers, who has only started one game, Warren’s sub-3 ERA is still third-best among the starting staff behind Max Fried (0.00) and Cam Schlittler (0.00), each of whom has not allowed a run in his 2-0 start.
“It’s early, but you love the fact that you get off to this kind of start,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “To see the guys, obviously pitching as well as they are, but also playing as well as they are … you like all the things you’ve seen, but obviously we’ve got to keep that going.”
According to YES Network researcher James Smyth, the seven-game streak of two-or-fewer runs allowed by Yankees starters is the just the second time in franchise history the rotation has done that.
Technically, it the first time in Yankees history the rotation allowed that number of runs through seven games. The New York Highlanders starters also gave up two runs or less in their first seven games in 1911, though they played at cavernous Hilltop Park in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.
Will Warren Was Dominant Again
Warren allowed two earned runs, on a pair of solo homers to Xavier Edwards and Owen Caissie, and struck out six in six innings and picked up his first win of 2026 in the Yankees’ home opener.
Warren could have come unglued early in his outing. Facing the Marlins in front of the huge crowd of nearly 49,000 in the Bronx, he served up the team’s first home run against this season to Edwards, the second batter Warren faced.
But Warren settled in by retiring 12 in a row after the Edwards homer before Caissie broke the streak with a home run.
“For the most part I thought he was in command,” Boone said. “I thought he handled all that comes with this day very well. He was having fun, very much in the moment.”
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